MeTA1 is a

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(MTA) that has been designed with these main topics in minds: security, reliability, efficiency, configurability and extendibility. It supports the

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typica ...

(SMTP) as specified by RFC 2821 and various extensions.

New development

The next generation of

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was initially called Sendmail X; it was previously called Sendmail 9, but it does not derive from the Sendmail version 8 code base. However, the development of Sendmail X was stopped in favor of a new project called MeTA1. The first release of Sendmail X smX-0.0.0.0 was made available on October 30, 2005. The final release was smX-1.0.PreAlpha7.0, released on May 20, 2006, under the same license used by Sendmail 8. MeTA1 1.0.0.0 was released on May 25, 2014.

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Sendmail, Inc.
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